On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 09:31 -0700, Simmons, Forest wrote: > In a recent message, partly quoted below, Adam Tarr outlined an NP hard > optimization approach to redistricting. He suggested that a genetic > optimization algorithm might be used for practical purposes. > -------------------- > I beleive this is an NP problem, but a good genetic algorithm could > come up with an acceptable solution given enough time to crank away.
Why not just try and solve the NP problem? After all, we've got a few years and the resources of an entire state to do it - maybe we could form a giant district-calculating array out of all the electronic voting machines when they're not being used for an election. :), Scott ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
